Netware has been kind to me. Over the past few years, my advancement in the IT industry has been meteoric, and for that I am extremely thankful. It is, however, a dead OS. Many folks are thinks Netware and Novell still has a future, especially with their OES migration, but I have lost the faith.<\/p>\n
Case and point: Today I converted an iSCSI target from a NSS volume to NTFS. It was a rather simple process – copy the files off, use the initiator on the Windows server to attach to the target, reformat drive NTFS, drop files back in and redo permissions. <\/p>\n
What struck me the most was the file transfer speed. Using the same hardware, copying files off of the iSCSI storage I topped out at about 30Mbit\/s. Copying those same files back to a Server 2008 machine with the same NIC to the same iSCSI target I averaged about 450Mbits, with the lowest speed at about 300Mbit\/s and the top around 600Mbit\/s.<\/p>\n
The iSCSI targets are fantastic. These specific units were from LeftHand Networks, and work well, although at a premium price for their software. I rather enjoy the Microsoft iSCSI target, but we’re still facing issues backing up the enormous files even disk-to-disk (nevermind the fact that BackupExec seems to lock the file so the initators lose contact with the target).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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